Life of James Ferguson, F.R.S.: In a Brief Autobiographical Account, and Further Extended MemoirA. Fullarton, 1867 - 503 頁 |
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... Showing the Ebbing and Flowing of Wells ; The Cause of Reciprocating Springs , and Ebbing and Flowing Wells Explained ; Hy- grometer , Pp . 286-312 1765. On the Quantity and Weight of Water in Pumps ; Table of Standard Weights of Money ...
... Showing the Ebbing and Flowing of Wells ; The Cause of Reciprocating Springs , and Ebbing and Flowing Wells Explained ; Hy- grometer , Pp . 286-312 1765. On the Quantity and Weight of Water in Pumps ; Table of Standard Weights of Money ...
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... Showing the localities referred to in Ferguson's Autobiogìaphy . [ Pages 1 to 54 ] SHIRE ELGIN ELGIN SHIRE CULLEN 16 Fochabers 2 - KEITH - 4 BANFF SHIRE 1 Ardneadhe ( Braehead 2 Forgieside page 18 4 3 Floors 24-27 4 Braco 20 5 Grange ...
... Showing the localities referred to in Ferguson's Autobiogìaphy . [ Pages 1 to 54 ] SHIRE ELGIN ELGIN SHIRE CULLEN 16 Fochabers 2 - KEITH - 4 BANFF SHIRE 1 Ardneadhe ( Braehead 2 Forgieside page 18 4 3 Floors 24-27 4 Braco 20 5 Grange ...
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... showing him what I had done . He expressed great satisfaction - asked me some questions about the construction of maps , and told me , that if I would go and live at his house , he would order his butler , Alexander Cantley , to give me ...
... showing him what I had done . He expressed great satisfaction - asked me some questions about the construction of maps , and told me , that if I would go and live at his house , he would order his butler , Alexander Cantley , to give me ...
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... showing me some , I undertook the work , and drew several for her , some of which were copied from her patterns , and the rest I The Lady Dipple . did according to my own fancy . On this I was sent for by other ladies in the country ...
... showing me some , I undertook the work , and drew several for her , some of which were copied from her patterns , and the rest I The Lady Dipple . did according to my own fancy . On this I was sent for by other ladies in the country ...
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... lation of the Greek of Thucydides . He appears to have had a taste for literary as well as genealogical and antiquarian pursuits , and to have been a gentleman and Indian ink , showing me how to draw with 32 A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE.
... lation of the Greek of Thucydides . He appears to have had a taste for literary as well as genealogical and antiquarian pursuits , and to have been a gentleman and Indian ink , showing me how to draw with 32 A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE.
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第 207 頁 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
第 208 頁 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks : the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
第 13 頁 - ... length, between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having a candle by me.
第 25 頁 - take a long, thin piece of whalebone ; hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.
第 167 頁 - Be it remembered, that on the day of in the year of his majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord...
第 27 頁 - Two large globular stones stood on the top of his gate ; on one of them I painted with oil colours a map of the terrestrial globe, and on the other a map of the celestial...
第 10 頁 - By means of a turning lathe which my father had, and sometimes used, and a little knife, I was enabled to make wheels and other things necessary for my purpose. I then wrote a short account of these machines, and sketched out figures of them with a pen, imagining it to be the first treatise of the kind that ever was written...
第 214 頁 - Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics...
第 26 頁 - ... upon it, and crushed it all to pieces ; which so provoked my father, that he was almost ready to beat the man, and discouraged me so much that I never attempted to make such another machine again, especially as I was thoroughly convinced I could never make one that would be of any real use.
第 60 頁 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described upon the side subtending the right angle, is equal to the squares described upon the sides which contain the right angle.